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As if former KUFO staffers Sarah X. Dylan and Greg Nibler weren't busy enough drinking 40s of malt liquor and talking about disturbing topics like Lifetime TV movies on their excellent podcast Funemployment Radio, the duo tonight adds a new line to their joint résumé: TV show hosts. The pair debuts Sportlandia, an online "live sports show with a Portland twist" tonight on Trail Blazers TV. They'll ...
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A late-arriving crowd here at the Rose Garden (and I'd hate to think that some of them missed the sweet-ass national anthem as performed by members of the Oregon Symphony), but they're filling up the place again, now. And though I just wolfed down a "Jumbo Cheeseburger" (it actually was pretty jumbo), I'm feeling pumped on America and pumped on basketball, so let's get into it, shall we? WE SHALL!---FIRST ...
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By now, Trail Blazers fans shouldn't be surprised by one more player suffering a knee injury. But Merde! Now it's apparently Nicolas Batum's turn to join the growing list of weak-kneed Blazers, with the 22-year-old Frenchman awaiting a diagnosis of his left knee after hurting it in last night's loss to Boston.Batum's injury comes the week after Marcus Camby hurt his knee, which came after Brandon Roy ...
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Another Trail Blazers season, another year that many Portland fans throughout the Northwest can't see the team on their cable system unless they have Comcast. The Washington, DC-based Sports Fans Coaliton is back to protest this virtual Blazers blackout in much of the region by organizing a fan protest outside the Rose Garden this Thursday, Nov. 19 18 at 6:30 pm before the Blazers' home game ...
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Alas, for Portland Trail Blazers fans, Greg Oden may have company on the out-for-the-rest-of-the-year shelf. The Blazers announced today that Brandon Roy is out indefinitely with sore knees. The 26-year-old Roy had been a fan favorite up until this injury-riddled season and the face of a franchise that seemed not so long ago to be resurgent. But even before today's news, all of that had already ...
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Today is obviously a very tough day for Portland Trail Blazers fans with the news that Maurice Lucas died on Sunday at 58 after fighting cancer. Many of the obituaries of Lucas remember him quite correctly as an enforcer whose tough-guy approach was integral to the Blazers winning their only championship in the 1976-77 season. Lucas, a power forward, did a lot of the dirty work that allowed ...
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[youtube EgZi6kajBuc] We've weighed in on the Greg Oden or Kevin Durant debate before. But who cares that we think Oden will eventually pan out? Now much greater minds than mine tackle the question of whether the Trail Blazers made the right move by drafting Oden over Durant. My favorite part of how those folks at Sports Illustrated frame the question: the first sentence is "Greg Oden hasn't ...
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